Do what I do every year with my 1000 dollars and chase big nasty midwest farm bucks for 2 weeks in November, I am addicted to large antlered whitetails.

I think I would use the money as a down payment on a little camper I've been looking at. That way, I can just pull it to one of the state parks down in Virginia/West Virginia/Western Maryland and have more use for it than huntin alone. There is plent of National Park land out that way that is open to huntin and callin my name.

Maybe that doesn't qualify for what you were looking for but that is what I want to do.

Greg

I wouldn't waste it on gas or outfitters.  Not even on big ticket tags.  Camp someplace for weeks during october and enjoy the colors and the whitetails and whatever local game was available.

I wish they'd put the brakes on these gas prices.
It's going to take a grand just to hit the local swamps.  I'm saving now for NY.

I'd put it in the bank, take a second job and work 80 hours a week until I had enough to go to back to South Africa

Biggie, how much does a round trip S. Africa hunt cost. Everything included?

ill just hunt whatever the next aniamal that looks at me wrong.just kidding,  i would to hunt any kind of bear somewhere.

Put the money in the checking account. Take off the second week of November and hunt my hot spots in JERSEY.

New Blacktail bow and hunt in state. If I draw a tag out of state it would really help with the tag and expenses!

Lets see... club/lease dues $600 a yr...
liscense/tags                         60 a yr
a dz arras                             100.
homemade cover scnet           25 a yr
gas and processor fees         200 a yr
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total                                    $985


Gee thats about what I spent last year... It'll cost me more than that this year...........

Robert,

You could get to South Africa and back for close to ten thousand. Alot of cost variables depending on how many animals taken. The flights are crazy long and the costs are high. A big expense with SA is the taxidermy which hits months after you get home.

Thanks JDS3.
Taxidermy covered, my brother does it for a living.

DIY moose/bear on the Kenai....

Robert, If I answer that, my idea won't sound as intellegent as it did  :-)

I have a few properties to hunt that are very close. I'd go on 100 $10.00 hunts. I like value.

I hear ya Biggie.

It's not the money thats a problem for me...its the time off from work.  I like my vacation time off way too much.  I'd stay in Washington...one hunt just isn't enough for me:
1. August-Black Bear on the Peninisula
2. September-Go to eastern Washington for a freezer-fillin Whitetail
3. Oct and Nov-Shoot Pheasants off the plant sites here in Western Washington (not South Dakota but way cheaper)
4. Finish up the late season with an Elk hunt on a special little island here off Washington.

I often wish we had hogs here but from what I hear about the damage they do, keep them D--N things in Texas!

Now being in the cold north I would use that 1000 to almost fill up the oil tank for the house. I would then be able to still be able to walk out the back door and hunt, also knowing the wife of 43 years is warm in the house.

Bill

I would pay the first half of my annual lease in the hill country near Brady Texas.